Popular Post Riverwalker Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 92 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 1,753 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/09/2014 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Word's I never saw in the bible Catholic Protestant Orthodoxy Baptist (well except for John) Calvinist Arminian Lutheran Methodist Pentecostal Presbyterian Episcopal and so on and so forth How did we ever let ourselves get so divided to the point that we separate ourselves from other Christians? Sometimes even pridefully perching ourselves on the pillar of truth and looking down on all others. Doesn't this confusion and strife strike you as the calling card of our enemy of old? What I have read in the bible is that we are one church, One Body and Christ is the Head 1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. Why do we allow the body of Christ to be carved up with the labels of men? When anyone asks me what I am, my answer is simple. I am Christian Edited March 31, 2021 by Riverwalker 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,993 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,691 Content Per Day: 11.75 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 10 minutes ago, Riverwalker said: Word's I never saw in the bible Catholic Protestant Orthodoxy Baptist (well except for John) Calvinist Arminian Lutheran Methodist Pentecostal Presbyterian Episcopal and so on and so forth How did we ever let ourselves get so divided to the point that we separate ourselves from other Christians? Sometimes even pridefully perching ourselves on the pillar of truth and looking down on all others. Doesn't this confusion and strife strike you as the calling card of our enemy of old? What I have read in the bible is that we are one church, One Body and Christ is the Head 1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. Why do we allow the body of Christ to be carved up with the labels of men? When anyone asks me what I am, my answer is simple. I am Christian I agree. Denominations is the cause that leads to separation. Jesus told us that a house divided against itself can not stand. Denominations are based on disagreement over interpretation of scripture. There is only one Church and one body of believers. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddyv Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 4,265 Content Per Day: 2.90 Reputation: 2,302 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/03/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Riverwalker said: How did we ever let ourselves get so divided to the point that we separate ourselves from other Christians? Yet one uses the word 'ecumenism' and some people freak out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Riverwalker said: Word's I never saw in the bible Catholic Protestant Orthodoxy Baptist (well except for John) Calvinist Arminian Lutheran Methodist Pentecostal Presbyterian Episcopal and so on and so forth How did we ever let ourselves get so divided to the point that we separate ourselves from other Christians? Sometimes even pridefully perching ourselves on the pillar of truth and looking down on all others. Doesn't this confusion and strife strike you as the calling card of our enemy of old? What I have read in the bible is that we are one church, One Body and Christ is the Head 1 Corinthians 12:25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. Why do we allow the body of Christ to be carved up with the labels of men? When anyone asks me what I am, my answer is simple. I am Christian Pride and arrogance in ourselves divided us. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.22 Reputation: 9,763 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 19 minutes ago, teddyv said: Yet one uses the word 'ecumenism' and some people freak out. That word is not in scripture either ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,302 Content Per Day: 1.71 Reputation: 1,686 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, Riverwalker said: Why do we allow the body of Christ to be carved up with the labels of men Because many groups hold firmly to what they see as the only way to Jesus and will not consider other ways to be valid. So long as other people using the label ' Christian ' are able to agree with each other as to the essentials of the gospel and agree to disagree on secondary matters then ' Christians' can fellowship with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waggles Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,790 Content Per Day: 0.77 Reputation: 983 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/20/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Riverwalker said: Pentecostal Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. The church and the gospel we read of in the NT was Pentecostal in every sense. And all the epistles are written to such - the Spirit-filled church that spoke in tongues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverwalker Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 92 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 1,753 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/09/2014 Status: Offline Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 56 minutes ago, Waggles said: Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. The church and the gospel we read of in the NT was Pentecostal in every sense. And all the epistles are written to such - the Spirit-filled church that spoke in tongues. Pentecostal with a captial P is a denomination, with a small p its the truth 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverwalker Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 92 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,054 Content Per Day: 0.60 Reputation: 1,753 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/09/2014 Status: Offline Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, teddyv said: Yet one uses the word 'ecumenism' and some people freak out. There is a difference between holding to one biblical truth than compromising said truth to include those who are not of the body 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted March 31, 2021 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 350 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,514 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,415 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 31, 2021 3 hours ago, teddyv said: Yet one uses the word 'ecumenism' and some people freak out. I get freaked out when someone accepts the title of "holy father"; issues edicts that are deemed and claimed infallible. I get freaked out when the globes largest "religion" says you can get to heaven if your a good person, and never mentions Jesus Christ. I really freak out when that leader gathers all the worlds religions [Buddhists, Hindus, Muslim's, Christians and dozens of others], and says we all pray to the same god, called by different names in that religion. Amen and A woman [congress]. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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